Understand the suitability of materials, techniques and processes

The website I'm going to use for research is http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/07/09/textures-and-patterns-design-showcase/.
I'm using this website because I like the attention to detail they give about textures and patterns. They talk about how textures and patterns are used more often than we think, we just don't notice them. Here is something written about textures on there website...


Textures and patterns are used more often than one may think. The reason why we don’t see them is because they usually remain in the background, supporting the overall design, replacing a standard background color and creating a more inviting atmosphere. But they almost never stand out. Used primarily for background images, they need to fit to the overall design making the content easier to perceive. In fact, wood textures seem to have become so popular that designers suggest that wood is the new glossy style and wood is the new white.

Here is a screenshot of there website, here it is showing you how to create a tile or pattern.

This part is showing you how patterns and styles are used in web pages, but we rarely notice them because there usually the background.



Nick Park





Nick park is a film maker for stop motion animation, best known for the making of wallace and grommit, shaun the sheep. 'A grand day out' was the first of the wallace and grommit films, where wallace builds a rocket in his garage and flys to the moon. With 'A gtand day out' in post production, he made 'creature comforts' as his contribution to a series of shorts called 'lip synch'. Creature comforts matched animated zoo animals with a soundtrack of people talking about there homes.The two films were for a host of awards.


Two more wallace and grommit films were later produced, 'The Wrong Trousers' and 'A Close Shave' both of these winning oscar's. He then made his first feature length film, 'Chicken Run', 2000. He also supervised a new series of 'creature comforts' for television in 2003.


His second feature length film was 'wallace and Grommit, curse of the were-rabbit', which was released 5 october 2005. Later won best animated feature Oscar at the 78th academy awards in 2006.


 Screenshot of creature comforts

This is a really good website, it shows how games are made, drawn, animated and more. It shows images used from games and shows the design process for them also along with the artist and about he/she. It offers tutorials on how to do things also at a price.

Firstly I made a new document then on the background layer I went to filter - render - difference clouds and did that several times until I found one I liked.

then I applied a gradient map on the image to make it a different colour as shown as above.

Then I applied a radial blur.

Then, I made a new text layer and wrote kaboom.

Then I applied some blending options to make the writing look a little more 3d.

Here is an animation I made using tweens in photoshop. The screenshots above show how I made it.

 
David Carson is an American graphic designer. He is best known for his innovative magazine design and use of typography. He was the art director for the magazine Ray Gun. Carson was perhaps the most influential graphic designer of the 1990's.


He was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1954. Carsons first contact as with graphic design was made in 1980 at the university of Arizona on a two week graphics course. He attended San Diego State University as well as oregon College of commercial art. Later he was teaching high school sociology in del mar california when he went to switzerland, where he attended a three-week workshop in graphic design as part of his degree.


He became renowned for his inventive graphics in the 1990s. HE art directed various music, skateboarding, snowboarding, surfer, beach culture and the music magazine Ray Gun. As art director of Ray Gun, carson came to worldwide attension. In a feature story, NEWSWEEK magazine said he "changed the public face of graphic design"

This is one of my favourite banksy images because, I think to make the image lead somewhere else like this one does is a really clever idea. It gives you a sense that there something behind the painting, making the whole image seem real and stand out more. I love the idea the women makes the wall look like a blanket or sheet by pulling it up like that. The technique banksy has used here is the stencil look, but most of the effect of the image comes from the pulling up of the sheet.




 


This is also one of my favourite banksy images. I think the message that this picture is trying to show is, someone rioting, but whenever we see riots on TV, its always really violent. But with this image, instead of the man throwing a brick or whatever... he is throwing flowers. This may represent peace, maybe there rioting for peace. I think when bansky does his work, he tries to put a message into each image.






Banksy Film
I found the film about banksy and other street artists really interesting. I thought that Mr Brainwash was sort of doing what he did for the money and the fame, where as someone like Banksy was doing it because he enjoyed it, he wasn't doing it for money and fame, he didn't care about that and continue's to keep his identity hidden from people. I also think that Mr Brainwash pushed away all the other street artists after he became famous and had loads of money. Because in the beginning he was the one chasing up the street artists, filming everything they do and without them, he wouldn't of become so famous and have loads of money. It almost feels like after watching that film that he has become more successful than they have in a space of half a year whereas they have spent years doing there street art. I really enjoyed watching banksy's lifestyle and what he does to get his images noticed by people and the effort he puts in, but does it because he truly enjoys what he's doing.


These are some graffiti tags I started coming up with.

Here is the final tag which I've developed in photoshop. was quite simple to do, just used a circle shape along with the text tool to make the bubble writing and a brush tool to make the drips, then filled it in with the paint bucket.

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